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James Walton reviews Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean by Morten Strøksnes

The past few years haven’t been easy for many books-related professions – but one group definitely enjoying a golden age are translators from Scandinavian languages to English. Oddly, the latest work to benefit from this boom doesn’t feature a single brooding detective, elaborate conspiracy theory or blood-splattered patch of snow. Instead, it’s an account of Morten Strøksnes and his friend Hugo Aasjord’s quest to catch a Greenland shark off the coast of northern Norway. Or at least that’s what the subtitle (“The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy...